Question

My Question is simple! How to Drop a Temporary Stored Procedure If Exists ? This is because while I create a Temporary SP in a script, it throws error like ‘There is already an object named ‘#sp_name’ in the database’ while i run the Second time. I dont want to show this message to users.
Please help me. Your solution is Highly appereciated!

Answer 1

The temp procs are dropped in the same way as permanent procs are dropped.
Please see the code below:

-- Create test temp. proc
CREATE PROC #tempMyProc as
Begin
 print 'Temp proc'
END
GO
-- Drop the above proc
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tempMyProc') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    DROP PROC #tempMyProc
END